One week ago today, on 26 May 2009, I was fortunate to have my wife tape a TV program called Artscape.1 From time to time my wife of 35 years tapes this program for me to watch after midnight so that TV’s soporific but sometimes stimulating content can help me go to sleep after a day, eight hours, of reading/research and writing. This week the focus was on an artist whose method, whose philosophy, whose approach to art was very much like my own. The artist was Alasdair Macintyre. He is a sculptor. I am a poet and writer. I write this prose-poem in appreciation to this artist for providing a helpful perspective on my own work over nearly 50 years. I wish you well, young fellow, and thank you for your articulation, your way of describing what you do. I found you and your work inspirational. -Ron Price with thanks to 1 ABC TV, “Artscape,” 26 May 2009, 10:00-11:00 p.m.

Pop culture and classical culturecollide in your work, Alasdair, asthey do in mine. Art history and somuch more—mythology & religion,sociology and psychology—in my case—the weight of history is foundin one great synthesis, one great andpersonal autobiographical reflectionwhich, to some extent at least is, Ilike to think anyway—everyman’s.

For you and me art is vocation,transformative, idiosyncratic &serious taking in the canon of thepast brought into my time, my age.I am not a practicing Catholic likeyou, Mr. Macintyre, but, rather, Iam a practicing Bahá'í, at least I ampracticing as far as I am able, like youin your Catholicism. My work is thewhole world unto itself: intellect andpopulist stuff, mainstream, coming intoconfluence, creative-mix.......synthesis.